The World: The Refugees: Journey Without End

THE refugees who escaped from An Loc last week were the latest to join a
swelling multitude of refugees who have fled from every region of South
Viet Nam where North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units have been faced off
against South Vietnamese soldiers and U.S. air power. Some 500,000
people have been displaced from the northern region occupied by the
Communists, and the tide of refugees is still rising in the Mekong
Delta provinces in the south. Since the North Vietnamese offensive
began in late March, an estimated 1,500,000 civilians have been driven
and burned from their homes and condemned...